An example of a massive legal rugby tackle

“Oh ho ho ho ho!” The announcer goes wild as the guy lays there semi-conscious.

This is why I stopped playing rugby at 15... I was criminally underweight against the Maori and Islander boys I was playing with - they were like adults (we played age, not weight grade)! And when they saw the skinny pakeha kid running I saw them grin and line me up. They enjoyed it alright. Heard a few of my bones break that way, so yeah, this tackle brought me right back to school. If we'd been playing weight grade, I might've enjoyed the game more!

This is why I stopped playing hockey and rugby in high school. Saw a rugby teammate have his face + jaw broken, needed multiple operations and he was never the same dude. Life changed at 14 because of a 'legal tackle.' Saw a Hockey teammate get trucked-through by a 200 lb animal and it fractured his spine, he was left in a wheelchair. Life changed at 15 because of a 'legal check.' I LOVED sports, but from age 14-17ish, these sports stopped feeling like sports and started feeling like deathmatches with mentally unbalanced teens trying to injure each other.

I played American football for years and my coaches would always say “Head on a swivel.” Then I played rugby. Head on a swivel—times three.

Clear example of why nations that don't implement weight grading perform drastically worse thant the ones that do.

you can't hear it but it's there - the sound of air rushing out of his lungs

no matter how you look at it, that is a lot of physical toll to take for the result of one posession in one game.

This is from my club! Joondalup Brothers RUFC in Western Aus. I recognise the wall in background lol.

During practice at college the coach had us do a tackling drill where I unfortunately paired up against a guy built like Mt. Rushmore. I was on defense and hit him just like this video; the difference being that he was unfazed and I felt every joint in my body crack. I did bring him down and was glad to return to the back of the line, only to hear the coach yell my name and hold up 2 fingers; meaning that I had to tackle him twice. Why I chose to tackle him high twice in a row still haunts me. That was the last day I played rugby; no joke. On this topic, the president of my former rugby club was left a quadriplegic from a broken neck during a match.

Back in my day our coach would run on with the magic water. Heals everything

Did anyone get the number plate of that truck? Hope he’s okay !

The tackler was winded also 😂 tried his best to hide it.

I love the way you chuckle as he lies there not moving.

You might say legal and it may well be but the tackler certainly intended to do harm

this happened to me once when we played a friendly tournament in france. i was unconscious and when i woke up a few seconds later i first thought I am dead and then a few seconds later i felt pain everywhere and a few more seconds later i passed out again from the pain. Then i woke up again on the sidelines and was dreamy af. I still played rugby after that, but it taught me a valuable lesson to never underestimate an opponent. The guy who "trucked" me, was the same height and just a few kg heavier.

This had to be from NZ. I'm from the UK but lived in Auckland for a few years and used to go watch my cousin play at High School level, and the size and mobility of these guys at age 13, 14, 15 is insane. I remember being in the gym on a Friday night and a bunch of these teenagers were in there casually pressing 40kg dumbells.

My brother and I played rugby from age 4, it was our life. Then one day my brother's mate broke his neck in a Judo competition, leaving him paralysed from the neck down at the age of 16. I'm sure this had a bearing on why I stopped playing rugby.

Fuck that was like watching someone get hit by a car

How anyone cant just call this as fucking stupid is beyond me.

Looking at this in slow motion I can see that he decided take contact to draw in the defender to create more attacking space.Brave but that is the risk you take when you do that you might get folded like a camp chair